And they aren't licensing anything from Starbucks?
For a while I was looking into opening a coffee shop and it's fairly straightforward to license names and sell coffee and coffee products from a lot of major coffee companies. Not that I care for Starbucks coffee, but it was the biggest brand that business brokers pushed on me.
No way for me to know, but I doubt it. I'm talking about very small shops very out of the way, and quite a long time ago as well. I assume it was under the radar.
For a while I was looking into opening a coffee shop and it's fairly straightforward to license names and sell coffee and coffee products from a lot of major coffee companies. Not that I care for Starbucks coffee, but it was the biggest brand that business brokers pushed on me.